Glance has added real-time product data and native checkout to its personal shopping platform through a new agentic commerce integration with PayPal, Glance said in a Thursday (Oct. 15) press release. Glance, which is backed by global technology company InMobi, is embedded on 60 million phones and connected TVs through relationships...
Google began rolling out its Universal Cart in the United States Thursday (Oct. 15), making it available in Google Search and in the Gemini app, the company said in a Thursday blog post. Google unveiled the Universal Cart in May at the Google I/O event....
Online retail kept taking consumer dollars in September, extending an annual growth rate that outpaced overall retail even as inflation reduced the purchasing power behind the broader sales increase. Sales at non-store retailers, which include eCommerce firms, rose 0.3% from August and 8.2% from September...
DoorDash launched a returns program along with an expansion of its retail marketplace, according to a Wednesday (Sept. 30) press release. The expansion involves partnerships in the apparel, beauty and home spaces, with Macy’s, Anthropologie, The North Face, Vans and Timberland now available options to...
Alibaba Group’s international eCommerce site, AliExpress, is testing a VIP program called Elite, The Information reported Wednesday (Sept. 30), citing an unnamed source. AliExpress is offering Elite on an invitation-only basis to customers in select countries who have spent more than $800 a year on...
Watch more: The Agentic Experience With Mastercard’s Sabrina Therani Agentic commerce is becoming an infrastructure race. The biggest agentic constraint today is not whether AI can shop but whether the systems surrounding that AI can determine what an agent is allowed to do, who is...
Watch more: The Agentic Experience With Gaurang Shah of Mastercard Agentic commerce is approaching an awkward transition point in its adoption cycle. The artificial intelligence (AI) foundation is getting good enough to shop for consumers faster than the commercial system responding to it is getting...
Online personal styling service Stitch Fix is seeing a “significant lift” in spending from clients who engage with its tool that lets them see artificial intelligence-generated images of themselves wearing the outfits they’re considering, Stitch Fix CEO Matt Baer said during a Wednesday (Sept. 23)...
Shopify and Meta have partnered to extend the shopping capabilities of Meta’s Muse artificial intelligence assistant, executives said Monday (Sept. 21). Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke said in a Monday post on X: “We are excited to announce we are partnering deeply with Muse to enable...